The introduction of mandatory screening for Covid-19 within the European Union for travelers arriving from China -which is experiencing an explosion of cases- is “unjustified”, estimated this Thursday the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control ( ECDC).
EU countries “have relatively high levels of immunization and vaccination” and “variants circulating in China are already circulating in the EU,” the ECDC said in a statement, explaining that such a measure would not be necessary at the Union level. European as a whole.
For the European agency, “the potential infections” that can be imported are “quite low” compared to the number of infections that already circulate daily. Health systems “can now handle” the disease, she added.
Several countries have already made this choice
The European Commission called a meeting on Thursday to “discuss (…) possible measures for a coordinated approach” by EU states to the explosion of Covid cases in China.
Several countries, including Italy or Japan, as well as the United States, have already decided to impose mandatory tests on all travelers coming from China.
The sudden end this month of China’s “covid zero” policy, which should encourage the resumption of overseas travel by Chinese, came as the country grapples with the world’s biggest wave of infections.
Source: BFM TV
